Okay, so I realize I haven't put anything up in awhile for GoAC, but honestly, I just cannot think of how to continue the story. So, as with Brand New World, Same Old Song, Ghost of Arkham City is on indefinite hiatus. I am truly sorry for those of you anticipating the next chapter. If you have any ideas for either story, I'd be more than happy to hear from you. Enjoy the first chapter of this new story, and I'll see you at the bottom.
Disclaimer: I own nothing in this story except my OC, and the time zones, unless someone else came up with them first, in which case, I don't.
[Story Begin]
[Volcano Area, 8:45 pm Tanzian Central Time (TCT)]
The volcano shook and rumbled in unison with the cry of a dying monster. Said monster cast one last mourning glance at her hidden nest, not caring for her own life, but for that of her unhatched offspring. Knowing she would not survive this encounter with the false-pelts, the Brute Wyvern made a decision. Letting her anger over take her once more, she thrust what remained of her horn into the ground and jerked her head up, sending a series of explosions towards the nest. The false-pelts scattered, but a red one got thrown back by the explosion chain, and did not move after landing. The explosion chain stopped before reaching the nest, but the shockwave from the explosions was more than enough to send the sole egg tumbling down the cliff side. An indignant cry from a yellow false-pelt made her glad she did so. They had been after her egg. The knowledge filled her with a final adrenaline rush, and the monster vowed that though she would die, she would take as many false-pelts with her as possible. Feeling the slime mold creep over her body, she went into an all-out explosive attack. The Brachydios fought to avenge her unborn baby.
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As the battle raged on above, the egg continued to fall. By fate, or by luck, it had avoided cracking. Whichever one that had influenced the egg seemed too have run out, however. The last edge it rolled off of led to a ground covered in stalagmites. Yet, once again, the universe had a different answer. A pair of mismatched arms reached out and snatched the egg before it hit the ground. Pulling the egg towards its equally mismatched serpentine body, the owner of the arms spoke. "That was a close one, wouldn't you say?" Peering at the egg, he continued. "You are lucky I was exploring this region outside of my world. Whatever happened that-" A death roar from above cut the speaker off. Looking sadly to the top of the cliff and back at the egg, he said no more on the matter. Knowing that the hunters, who had undoubtedly killed the parent of the egg, would come looking for it, he flew off to where they wouldn't be able to reach them. 'Now I'm carrying a parentless egg. I can't just leave it; the guilt would kill me! Who could possibly…well, she could, but…I don't even know what kind of egg this is…then again, she has taken care of stranger creatures…I'll ask her, and help in any way I can…it's the least I can do to honor its parents.' Nodding to himself, the creature from another world opened a wormhole to home. Flying through the portal, Discord had one last thought. 'I hope this isn't the egg of that one monster that eats anything and everything…'
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Up above, the mother Brachydios dragged herself to the cliff edge. She had successfully driven off the multicolored false-pelts, but her injuries were too great. She would not survive. Having reached the edge, she looked down. For a moment, she briefly wondered if her injuries had caused hallucinations. Holding her egg was a strange, mismatched creature, floating midair without any signs of support. It wings weren't even moving. Blinking, she lowered her head with a contented sigh. She wasn't hallucinating. Instinct told her that was her egg. It would survive. She watched the creature open a hole from nothing and enter the hole. A distinct nyaa filled her earholes. The Felynes would do as they did with any other monster the false-pelts didn't kill, and give her to the volcano's lava pools so that she would become part of the fiery mountain, and grant a home to the various monsters that lived here. Closing her eyes, the mother let out her last breath, knowing her child would be safe, at least, from the true monsters of this world.
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[Unknown meadow, edge of Everfree forest, 2:00 pm, Standard Equestrian Time (SET)]
Discord's wormhole opened up into a meadow, not too far from the Everfree forest. He made to snap his talons to teleport to Fluttershy's house, but stopped before he did, and looked at the egg cradled in his lion foreleg. 'That really would not be the best. Were it not an egg, I would do so. It is, however, and I don't want to risk the unborn hatchling to become a chaotic creature like me.' Smiling and chuckling to himself about the possibilities of another chaotic draconequus let loose in Equestria, the Spirit of Chaos began the flight to Fluttershy's house. Speaking aloud to the egg, he said "I really do hope you get along well here. I don't know much about the natives of your world, but I do know most are carnivores. I suppose Fluttershy could help with that. She does take care of some meat-eaters after all." Discord looked at the egg. "Or I could make you an omnivore. Fruits and veggies are good for everyone…except me. I just turn 'em to cotton candy and chocolate milk. Not that you'd know what that is…" He continued his rambling, telling the egg about Equestria. He kept it up, all the way to Fluttershy's house.
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[Ponyville, 2:00 pm, SET]
Meanwhile, back at Twilight's library, she and Pinkie were finally organizing the books, so that everypony, not just Pinkie, could find them. They had decided on sorting by the author's last name, and alphabetizing the books in that way. Pinkie Pie had wanted to sort them by color, but the lavender alicorn pointed out that, once again, only the Party Pony would be able to find the books. They had just finished authors A-M when Pinkie's Pinkie Sense went off. All of the signs, all at once. This of course, caught Twilight's attention. "Don't tell me. It's a huge doozy, possibly even bigger than when I believed in your Pinkie Sense. "
"Yup!"
"Any clue as to what it is?"
"Nope!"
"But it's coming soon."
"Yup!" Twilight frowned in thoughtful concentration. If it was bigger that her acceptance of the Pinkie Sense, that meant whatever-it-was was potentially bigger than a hydra, such as the one that attacked them. Twilight looked back at her friend.
"Discord doesn't have anything to do with this, does he?" Pinkie thought for a bit.
"He does! I don't know how, but he brought the doozy here, and if it was enough to catch his attention, then that means it's super exciting, and if it's super exciting, then it's gotta be really fun, and if it's really fun, then…" Twilight tuned her out. If Discord had brought the doozy here, they should at least see what it was. Walking towards the door, Twilight cut off Pinkie's rambling.
"Come on, Pinkie. We're going to see what Discord's doozy is."
"Okie doki loki!" They exited the building, and Twilight started trotting off before she realized she didn't even know where Discord was. She turned back to Pinkie.
"You do know where he is, right?"
"He's at Fluttershy's house!" This slightly confused the Element of Magic. What did Fluttershy have to do with the doozy?
"Oh...kay then. To Fluttershy's it is." Pinkie smiled her signature grin, and started bouncing off towards Fluttershy's house. Twilight smiled and shook her head at Pinkie's antics, quickly catching up to her. No matter what happened, she knew she could rely on her friends.
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[Unknown location, unknown time]
Darkness. Darkness and warmth from all around and vibrations and noises and a sense of movement, moving and rolling and then falling, falling towards something and then being caught and warmth, warmth from something else and then a voice, different from what he heard and knew from before but still a voice and then a loud noise and rumbling and vibrations and moving again, moving forwards and then-
Nothing. No feeling. No darkness, no light. Just nothing.
And then the darkness and warmth and movement came back and the voice was speaking again and they were moving and moving and falling again but more controlled that he had been and then no movement, no movement but a new voice, softer than the second voice and then the new voice had a warmth and this warmth was the best he had felt and he knew what this warmth was. He knew what this new warmth was.
Mother.
I'm going to be honest with you guys. I have no idea where this is going. Like with GoAC, this was a random idea that I put down onto Word. Y'all have probably noticed that currently, all my stories are in categories people hardly ever look at. I don't know why that is. If you'd like a story in a more well-known category, ask, and I'll see what I can do. New record for amount of words in a chapter: 1,414. Not including the A/N at the beginning and end. If you guys noticed that I put in OC as a character, it's because of the baby Brachydios (Brach or Brachy for short). The little guy is going to be my OC, though I'm not really sure how that's going to turn out. I've already come up with a name for him too, so please, don't suggest anything. Finally, the last POV of each chapter will be the eggs POV, up until it hatches, which should be soon.
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